It has already been a long time since the release of the Xiaomi 12 series in China and according to previous leaks, a super premium model with the name of Xiaomi 12 Ultra will also be included in the series. As we know, Xiaomi's super flagship from the previous year, the Xiaomi Mi 11 Ultra, was presented in March.
Xiaomi 12 Ultra postponed to Q2, could arrive with Snapdragon 8 Plus
Well, apparently, according to the well-known Chinese leakster Digital Chat Station, the Xiaomi 12 Ultra has been postponed and will debut in Q2 instead. Q2 means the second quarter of 2022, therefore between the months of April and June.
As for the specifications of the device, so far the engineering prototype of the device has been seen with the Snapdragon 8 Gen1 chip made by Samsung on board, but given that the release times have been postponed, it is not excluded that it will be replaced with the Snapdragon chip. 8 Plus made by Samsung with new generation 4nm process.
In addition to the top performance, the positioning of the smartphone is basically the same as the previous Xiaomi 11 Ultra from last year. From an imaging standpoint, it was previously reported that the device will continue to be equipped with a periscope telephoto lens, with a 5x telephoto lens. This high-end hardware will be accompanied by some new self-developed technologies. All this will allow the smartphone to return to dominate the ranking of DxOMark, the well-known photographic benchmarking platform.
Furthermore, there is a lot of news that the phone will be born out of a collaboration with Leica and will become Xiaomi's first high-end flagship phone certified by Leica. This will bring enormous advantages in the quality of the images taken and probably also for the videos.
In any case, although the specifications of the photographic sector have not yet been exposed, i yield of the appearance of the device have been leaked recently from many places, which shows that the phone uses a huge rear camera module of circular shape, in which we find at least four cameras.
